What is the smartphone emulator?
The smartphone emulator is a full -size computer tool to imitate the behavior of a mobile phone. Its main purpose is to test websites to ensure that they are compatible with how mobile devices approach the Internet. It can also be used to test mobile applications.
There are a number of smartphones technologies that can be emulated on the computer. The simplest is a wireless access protocol or WAP, which is a very basic web browser system, which occurs mainly on older or more basic mobile phones. This requires the website to be specially designed with a network of such pages known as a mobile site. These include the iPhone, Windows® Mobile, Google Android ™, Palm OS® and Symbian. Some emulators will also show how the page appears in special mobile browsers such as Microsoftexplorer®, Mozilla's Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
There are a number of differences in the way web pages appear on mobile devices, unlike full -size computers. For example, pages can be automatically changed to fit on smaller screens. If developers do not allow it, some of their navigation designs, such as side panels and offers, may not be as effective as they intended. There are also some multimedia content problems such as Flash® video system used for sites such as YouTube or online ads.
Further use of the smartphone emulator is for application testing. These are separate programs for mobile phone operations, usually distributed through services such as the iPhone App Store, Android ™ App Store and Windows® Marketplace for Mobile. The emulator will usually be available as part of a set of software development tools, a free tool package for a mobile operaIt provides the system to help ensure that separately manufacturing applications work correctly on the appropriate phones.
The "smartphone emulator" may also refer to smartphone applications that mimic a particular computer or more often game console, usually from 80 or 90. These applications then start special files that simulate the original games from this machine. They can work particularly well because modern smartphones often have computing power equal to or larger than the original computer or console. A small screen on smartphones means that emulation is likely to work best for games that were originally on portable consoles such as Nintendo® Gameboy. It is important to note that the use of such files could potentially violate copyright, although some users believe it is morally acceptable if games are no longer commercially available.